Published: October 26th 2008
October 20th 2008
October 20th 2008
In the evenings Yangshou is characterised best by the brash neon that lights the narrow café, restaurant, bar and souvenir shop lined streets of its ‘old’ town and by the foreign tourists who walk with an awkward John Wayne style shuffle between these gaudy Western-Chinese fusion establishments. During the day, the done thing for any visitor wishing to truly appreciate the landscape for w... Read Full Entry
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Years of staring at maps, debating routes, saving money and boring anyone in earshot with constantly changing plans finally culminated in our D-Day. 28th August 2006. The day that Vik and Bob went global.
Having made it to New Zealand without taking a single flight, we reached the conclusion that neither our finances nor our sea legs could stomach another container ship journey so we've cheated and taken a flight from New Zealand to Bangkok. From Bangkok we hope to stick with the overland theme and take a route home through Southern Asia: China, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey...
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Parklife
My favourite thing about China is the parks. A place to unwind and people watch. And oh, the watching you can do! Every nutty activity is given new levels of nutiness.
Grub's Up.
Check out the scorpions. Mmm. And no, I didn't try them.
She was a ball breaker
That's the kind of sentence these students were learning from their English text books. After "Hello" and "How Are You?" came some of the worst and least likely sentences and phrases. Fortunately I was there to add "She was a nut buster" to their volcab.
Our Hotel in Yangshou
Just kidding - this one was for Panda's only.
I want to ride my testicl... I mean, bicycle.
Sorry, my balls were my main concern during our off-road antics around Yangshou.
Misty Dragon's Backbone
Unfortunately the view from the top was ruined by the haze created by the bus drivers smoking in the carpark.
The Comfy way up the Mountain
They charged per kilo.
A Million Mao's
A very scary sight...
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